GLM-5
Last verified August 8, 2026 · Zhipu pricing ↗$1.00/1M input · $3.20/1M output · 200K context · Zhipu
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ZhipuLeading Chinese LLM. Cached input $0.20/1M. Estimated tokens. Context and max output corrected on 2026-08-08 from 128K/32,768 to the 200K/128K published at docs.z.ai/guides/llm/glm-5; the old figures also disagreed with our own glm-5.1 and glm-5-turbo entries, which already carried 200K/128K.
Input / 1M tokens
$1
Output / 1M tokens
$3.2
Context Window
200K
Max Output
128K
Price History
No price change recorded since 2026-08-08, when this site started tracking this model.
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